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Chapter 22

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and what do you think, Marilla? The trustees have hired a new teacher and it’s a lady. Her name is Miss Muriel Stacy. Isn’t that a romantic name? Mrs. Lynde says they’ve never had a female teacher in Avonlea before and she thinks it is a dangerous innovation. But I think it will be splendid to have a lady teacher and I really don’t see how I’m going to live through the two weeks before school begins I’m so impatient to see her.

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PHOTO ANNOTATION

black and white photo of a women in a black dress with a decorative jacket

"never had a female teacher in Avonlea before": Women did not continue to teach after they were married, and young men often used teaching as a stepping stone to something else. Montgomery had male and female teachers. Montgomery may have modeled Miss Stacy on her own Cavendish teacher, Hattie Gordon, to whom she dedicated Anne of Avonlea.
Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph, L.M. Montgomery Collection